Isobel Elsom (foreground) with Ida Lupino in 'Ladies in Retirement'
Isobel Elsom (1893 - 1981)
Ex-Mrs. Maurice Elvey
(director)
Mrs. Carl Harbord
(widowed)
Ladies in Retirement (1941) [Leonora Fiske]: Strangled with a shawl (off-camera) by Ida Lupino while Isobel is sitting at the piano; we only hear the sound of the struggle after Ida comes up behind her. Her body is not shown afterwards.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Back for Christmas (1956) [Hermione Carpenter]: Bludgeoned to death with a lead pipe by John Williams in the cellar; we only see a close-up of John as he brings the pipe down, followed by a scene of him finishing up after burying her.
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